<TITLE>16. Par 51-52</TITLE>L-51 So I thought, "I'll see what's interesting that little fellow to hold his attention, even me a man standing here, and this axe in my hand, little chopping axe. And I said, "Wonder why he don't run?" Usually a bear will just take off. But I walked around to one side, and to my amazement, that was the cutest thing I ever seen.
You know, I--I like pancakes and molasses. I don't know whether you do. And when... I like plenty of molasses on my pancakes. And I'm a Baptist, you know, and I don't believe in sprinkling; I just pour it on real heavy. So I always take me a big bucket of molasses. And this old bear had got in there and got in my bucket of molasses. And he had that lid off it; he was setting down like this, with it all hugged in his arms, socking his little foot down and licking it. That's it. Well, I said, "Get away from there." And when he looked around, he couldn't see me; his eyes was all stuck from molasses; he looked at me like that, looked back and started sopping his little foot again till he cleaned that bucket out.
And I thought, "Brother, if that ain't an old time Pentecostal meeting he's having, I never seen one." Got his hand in the honey bucket come up to his arm like this, just sopping away, no condemnation at all, no fear, no nothing else. Only thing he's doing is sopping. And, oh, it tastes like honey in the rock. But the strange thing was, when he finally sopped the bucket out, and he went over there where his mammy was, his little brother and his mammy begin to lick him, getting some of the honey. Oh, it's wonderful. Notice, how marvelous.

L-52 Now, when the robes was all given out, and the people come by the way... Every man that come by the door got a robe. So the Bible goes ahead now, in closing for a moment. Notice, as the--it goes on, the Bible says that the supper was made, and all the lame and the halt and the blind come up and got ready, got on a robe and went in. And after while, after the great table was set, the king come out himself, the bridegroom.
And he... to his surprise there was a man there that didn't have on any robe. Wonder what he was? Was he a Presbyterian? Was he a Pentecostal? See? He didn't have on any robe. He was just dressed in his ordinary street garb. Now, Jesus never called him a devil. He said, "Friend, how did you get in?" There's one thing sure, he hadn't come by the door. If he'd have come by the door, he'd have got a robe. But he had climbed up some other way. He'd went by his church.
Now, as certain as I'm standing here, there's going to be that type of people there. He must've come by the way of a church. He must've come by some man-made theology, shake a hand, be sprinkled, or something. He didn't come by the door; if he had he'd a repented, been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, just exactly like the apostles did. That's the gate--door they went in. That's the door you have to go in. That's the door everybody has to go in. 'Cause He is the Door; He is the Bridegroom. He stands there and the Father gives the invitation, calls you, and you come up and He gives you the robe to come in. And every man receives it just the same way. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, come right up and receive God, accept God, be baptized, calling upon the Name of the Lord, and the Holy Ghost comes in and fills you just like they did on the day of Pentecost, the same way.


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